Monday, May 12, 2014

Worm-eating Warbler and 16 Other Warblers!

Ovenbird

After yesterday’s great report by Haynes of the Mother’s Day bird walk at Nahanton, I needed to swing by this morning before work. With an early start of 5:45am bird life was fantastic. I’m short on time so the highlights will follow and the full list is below. The lower garden had a Canada Warbler, Blackburnian Warbler, and a Chestnut-sided Warbler. The upper garden then added a Worm-eating Warbler in the woods by the beehives, fortunately he was singing his insect like trill, or I wouldn’t have found him so high up in the oak. He is also a first eBird record for Nahanton. Down by the pond were Wilson’s Wabler, Northern Waterthrush, White-crowned Sparrow, and a thrush that I think is a Veery, any

Worm-eating Warbler

thoughts (picture below). Then the driveway by Nahanton St. added to the list above with a Prairie Warbler and Lincoln’s Sparrow. In the end I tallied 17 species of Warblers, by far my best ever. Not to mention Blackburnian and Worm-eating Warblers as lifers for me. The pictures weren’t as great as I would have liked, but I was at least able to document most of the birds to share here (click to enlarge).

Thanks Suzette! Do you remember my Canada Warbler "picture" from two years ago? That was pre dslr and was a camera phone / binocular picture and it was just a yellow and olive blur. But yeah, I was still lucky this one came out from cover and held still this long.

Nahanton Park

Nahanton Park is a very special wildlife area. In a relatively small space, there are several different habitats - the river, a pond, woods, meadow and gardens. These all contribute to the unusual and diverse wildlife one is able to experience on a daily basis at the park.

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